Steven Universe fic

Pt4 Chapter Eight: The Plan Before Action

Steven shook his head, throwing the water from his eyes as he entered his home, Garnet followed close behind, then Pearl, and finally Amethyst.

"I can't believe she lied," the boy paused, grimacing for a moment, "Actually, I can." He turned to Garnet who was silent behind him, overturned in her own thoughts.

"Why didn't you tell me Spinel would turn on us?!" He shouted, throwing his hands in the air at the fusion.

"I didn't see it." She replied, only thinking about her frivolous fight with Antarcticite. Pearl stepped toward Steven, attempting to rest a hand on the frothing boy.

"This could be a misunderstanding.." she said softly, despite her disapproval of Spinel, she had watched how hard she worked at getting over her issues, it didn't seem genuine that she would play them for fools, then again, Spinel never made her motives clear enough for them to follow in the past. And she was very, very good at playing games.

"I got a transmission from Pink Pearl, and Spinel's stupid friends ruined any chance I had at finding the Diamonds, or the weapons!" Steven threw Pearl's hand off of him, exasperated from his efforts, he slumped down on the couch muttering idle negatives to himself.

"I should have known this would happen, I should have never let her stay, never even tried to be her friend. If this is what I get in return."

"Don't say that," Amethyst interrupted his negativity, "you're Steven! You can't just turn you back on someone-"

"Yes, I can! I shouldn't have to be nice all the time, I'm not a kid anymore, people are getting hurt and its my- its her fault!" He snapped, shutting up his friend. Amethyst squinted her eyes in disappointment and let out a sigh.

"Fine, if you want to be like that, see if I care." The gem whipped around, throwing up her hands in frustration and entering her room.

Pearl glanced at Garnet, searching for direction from her unmoved expression. She looked back at Steven, who seemed to wallow in his rage and hatred. She couldn't understand why he had turned so quickly on his friend, or what exactly had caused him to do so.

"Steven, don't you think you're jumping to conclusions?" She asked hesitantly, he shot a glare at her, causing Pearl to step back.

"She had communication with Aquamarine, I don't know how long, but it must have been since she came back! And that other gem, I caught her talking to her, acting suspicious, lying to me about it!" His voice grew louder as he began to lose himself to his anger, Garnet finally turned to face him, causing the boy to release his pent up emotion with a forced exhale.

"Aquamarine coordinated all of this, that's why this happened, I should have been there to stop it, but she planned for me not to be." Steven looked up at her as she spoke, "that gem isn't like any I've seen before, Aquamarine has powerful gems on her side, and now she has Spinel, who knows how to get to the Diamonds weapons. We have to stop them."

Steven nodded, suddenly recalling their attempted intrusion on the Diamonds, aquamarine had been there already, had dispatched Yellow and Blue, and was only foiled by Pink Pearl's surprise attack, she now knew the Diamonds had the modified rejuvenator plans, and she now had the only gem who managed to steal one.
They had to get to them before Aquamarine, or the new leader of homeworld would be the wretched blue gem.

"Pink Pearl said something about the Diamonds making more, I can only guess more of those scythes, but she cut out too often for me to get anything important. She also said the Diamonds had left homeworld, or I think she did." Steven replied softly, looking off into space as he tried to recall what the gem had mentioned. He didn't really know what she said, but could surmise that it was ultimately bad information, involving the diamonds, and making more- of something.

He had to build a plan, before Aquamarine set hers into action, before the Diamonds could finish their monstrosities, he had to find a way to get to them, and stop both of them, without having to resort to violence.

"I'll try to connect to Pink Pearl, if I can call her, she can tell us where the weapons are being made, and we can stop them." He looked up at the two gems, nodding affirmatively at his own words. They blinked, nodding slowly in agreement.